Ubuntu

Well, it will come to no surprise to see Ubuntu driving the Tablets PCs very soon. Already theUbuntu for phones is out and is gaining explosive popularity. Then why not tablets now? Mr. Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu has been already inkling about the possibilities of Ubuntu phones and tablets for long now. By this, the idea is to make Ubuntu more popular and acquainted to the masses so that they could flourish their OS on bigger machines with ease.

The founder, Mr. Shuttleworth wrote on his blog recently that in 2013, the Unity will all be about mobiles and tablets. This shall cement the speculations of Ubuntu Tablets being launched this year. But still there is no authentic news about the Ubuntu hardware and the smartphone tables.

Now let’s see some of the features which should be there with Ubuntu tablet:

1) Ubuntu Personal Cloud: This caters the one feature which makes a data available simultaneously on many registered devices. For instance, you had clicked a picture on your phone; it will also flash on your tablet instantly.

2) Swipe to Switch: Switching between applications that too with no latency will be the highlight. Various swipe patterns will guide the users through all the Apps running on the tablet. This shall make an efficient “multi tasking” device.

3) Messages, emails, phone calls all to be read/received and replied at any juncture of time, while using any of the Apps without exiting.

4) K.I.S.S: Keep It Simple Silly is something Ubuntu would be trying with the help of their simple but elegant ecosystem of applications.

5) Battery usage is presumed to be low in comparison to the other canonical cousins in the tablet market, since the Ubuntu is much optimized and is a light weight OS.

We all know Ubuntu has a big footprint in the market for the simple reason of its simplicity and of course for being free. By the launch of Ubuntu Tablets in the absence of Windows 8 RT popularity can allow it to gain strong Tablet market traction towards itself. But for now, let’s wait for the device with utmost anticipation

Swipe to Switch” seems to be the brand-slogan for Ubuntu powered phones with their newest releases. Instant switching amongst running Apps with almost no lagging has made possible, an ultimate multitasking experience in the phones. With lesser botched screens, the credit goes to the Ubuntu OS for phones.

Ubuntu phones can also be as good stepping stone for Ubuntu tablets and days are not far when Ubuntu will hit the tablet market and become the Tablet Guru.

Few of the interesting swipes which can bring smile on your face are as follows:-

1) Left edge to Right edge: This very swipe reveals all the Apps favorite to you. Select any one of them and you will find yourself immersed in that App, within a blink of an eye. You don’t really have to wait for one App to close down and then browse for another App you wish to load.

2) Right edge to Left edge: With every time you perform this swipe across the screen, you will switch yourself to the App running before the current App. You keep swiping in this fashion and the switching of Apps will continue, flashing all the previously active Apps in a specific order.

3) Swipe up from the Bottom edge: Pull-ups the control-options of an App. This way only the content captures the screen and controls come and go only when the user swipes for it.

A few other highlights:

1) Blistering fast searches made and the search-results have the contents not just from your phone storage but also all from the internet in an adorned manner.

2) A very simple but elegant personalized Welcome Screen gives you a feeling to connect with your phone. The smooth appearance and performance of your phone will make you fall in love with it before you realize.

3) With all this switching-instantly maneuvers, the objective of keeping the appearance a lot cleaner than the others in race, has become easier for the OS. The clean and crisp environment doesn’t bother you to go for more and more usage, rather you will love it.

4)One New Message: Just swipe down from the top edge and don’t keep your dear ones waiting, just reply, on the fly! Same arrangement is for all, be it your mailbox, Facebook messenger, or even a voice call.

To sum up, we can say, after having Ubuntu in a phone, you can do more than what you can imagine. Simply, it makes an ordinary looking phone into a super features-laden, Super-phone.

Ubuntu One is the new trending app which caters 5 GB (free) online storage space to the users, popularly known as “Ubuntu Personal Cloud”. This App is very similar to the existing Apps like iCloud, Google Music, Skydrive, Live Mesh etc. For your information, the codes at the client side of the application is written in the language called ‘Python’ and this Apps works on operating systems like Ubuntu, Windows, iOS and Android. See the comparison between Ubuntu Cloud and Apple iCloud.

Just one apps for all devices.

Ubuntu one is very instant and has better features than other contending Apps. You can expect your data to be accessed from any of your systems at any point of time, provided you have an Ubuntu one account and have shared the data in your Ubuntu Personal Cloud.

èSync your data from a device and instantly find it available on rest of your devices.

èMake a collection of your favorite songs and just play them on the fly on any of your devices using the Ubuntu One account.

èClick a photo from your cell and magically see it on your other devices in no time. Imagine yourself clicking random pics in a jungle and your mates watching those sitting far away on your laptop. Exciting! Ain’t it?

èOne can even send links of the files to his friends and family, for them to download. Links from other photo apps can also be sent or shared on social media sites like FB, Twitter etc.

èCan also be used as a file transfer utility App amongst all your devices.

So, it shows that with just one account you can have instant access to the data from all your systems, hence the name. For more, visit https://one.ubuntu.com/

If your net connection is proxy authenticated or needs username and password to a connect to the net, then you need to configure the network settings to access the internet. When there are proxy settings and username & password are required for internet, here are the few simple steps to setup the proxy authorization for Ubuntu.

1. Goto Terminal and type sudo nautilus.2. A folder window will appear, from there go to filesystem->etc->apt->apt.conf3. Type the following http://<proxy address> <username>:<password>@<proxy address>:<port number>

The wait for Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) has come to an end. If you want to experience the Ubuntu 12.04 environment, you can download its iso file from here and install it comfortably by following a few steps. Installing Ubuntu 12.04 is all the same as installing any of the other versions of Ubuntu with just a touch changed GUI.

To install Ubuntu 12.04 you must have at least 10GB of free space as a pre-requisite .The steps given here can also be used to dual boot Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7.To dual boot Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows OS, first you got to empty any one of your drives having at least 10GB of total capacity. Then format it to make it free (shown as green is Disk Management in Windows). Ubuntu 12.04 can be dual booted with Window 7, XP or Vista. Given here are the step-by-step instructions to install Ubuntu 12.04 along with relevant screenshots.

Step by step instruction for Ubuntu installation –

1) Boot from a boot-able Ubuntu USB or CD(DVD is recommended).

Select Install Ubuntu

2) The following Ubuntu screen will appear.

Ubuntu 12.04 installation step 2.

Leave the “Install this third party software” option unchecked as you can download this software later on and Continue

3) The following window will appear. If you select the option “Erase disk and install Ubuntu”, the already installed OS gets deleted/erased and Ubuntu’s installation gets underway. In case you want to dual boot Ubuntu 12.04 select the option “Something else”.

Step 3 of Ubuntu 12.04 installation.

4) Then the following window appears. In this window select the disk drive in which you intend to install the Ubuntu 12.04.In this window, a drive is shown as free space. Select the drive and click on change option.

Step 4: Select the drive in which Ubuntu has to be installed

In the options, “Device for boot loader Installation” select the master hard-drive of your system(usually it does not require any change).

5) After clicking on change option, the following window will appear.

Step 5: Set the drive size here.

Define the size of the partition (8GB is recommended). In the “Use as” option select “Ext4 journaling file system”, the latest file system in Linux and then select mount point as “/“. Press OK.

6) The next window which you will see, appears the same as the window in step 4. The only addition here the sticking up of the Ext4 and “/” at their respective positions ie, in the Type and Mount point columns ( corresponding to the drive you have selected) . Make sure you have these options next to your selected drive else you got to check your taken steps again. Once sure, click on “Install Now”.Note: The method shown above is a simple guide. You can also create additional partitions if you want, namely, /boot, /home, etc. In that case, you will have to divide your available free space accordingly. Normally, “/” should be given around 8GB space as all the installed packages go into it and remaining space can be given to other partitions.

8) Now, you will be asked to select the time zone and keyboard layout of your system.

9) In the last window, give the name and password of your system(you need to give an alphanumeric password and obviously remember it for future use) and after this click “Next”.

10) With this your Ubuntu installation is done!!. Reboot and you shall see the Grub menu at the start, allowing you to choose the OS from which you want to boot up.

Note: About the Swap partition, now a days laptops and desktop come with a large RAM, it is not advisable to use swap partition. Just try to keep things simple, swap partition can be created later on.

Today we’re going to talk about Ubuntu cloud, codename Openstack and Apple iCloud. Yes, the latest innovation by Apple, which was introduced with the iPhone 4S at the “Let’s Talk iPhone” event.

Apple iCloud logo

iCloud lets you to sync all your music you purchase from iTunes to the cloud and then you can access it anywhere from any iDevice, be it a Mac, an iPhone, an iPod or an iPad. That’s not all, even the apps you buy from the AppStore, say for example, Angry Birds, will be automatically installed and synced to all the other mobile devices you have connected to the internet at that very instant. Also, the pictures, documents, videos, and other media you allow, will be uploaded to the cloud and you can access them from all of your iDevices and PC too. Like you make a calendar entry on your iPhone, it automatically synchronizes to your account on the cloud and pushes it back on all the devices you have registered with iCloud. You take a picture on your iPad, the next moment you’ll have it on every other iDevice of yours. You get the air. So, it’s pretty cool, eh?

Ubuntu cloud

However, it turns out, Apple stole it. Again, I mean, technically they have stolen the idea behind that but then they bought CloudMe, and they had all the rights with them. Turns out also, that this idea was first brought out by guys at Canonical. Yes, the same people who gifted the world with Ubuntu. And that cloud service was available for the first time in Ubuntu with Ubuntu One, a built-in cloud file client.

Ubuntu allows you to do just everything the now hyped iCloud does, for the last two years! You’re allotted 5 GB of data in the cloud. iCloud offers the same now. Above that, you’ll have to shell out money as per the plan you opt for. Ubuntu One service is accessible via many mobile device, since there are dedicated clients for Android and iOS devices, whereas clients for WP7S are under works.

The Ubuntu Cloud feature was first released with Ubuntu 9.10. There’s also Windows Ubuntu One client for those who use Linux and Windows as well. The application programming interfaces (APIs) are also publicly available now.

If you opt for the paid Ubuntu One Music Streaming service in addition to music streaming, you’ll get an additional 20 GB of storage for $3.99/month. Each fresh addition of 20 GB data henceforth will be charged at $2.99/month.

The newest cloud client with Ubuntu is in Ubuntu 12.04 which has integrated OpenStack for all their cloud computing needs.

I recommend all readers to try Ubuntu One and avail the benefits of having it for free.